Statement from the Candidate

In 2010 I ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States Congress, but I'm still posting blogs that I believe express an opinion that most other people miss, and that I also believe can make America great again and cast off the yoke of liberal/progressive control that is currently in place.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

“A Zip Code Should Not Determine A Child’s Future”

The title above comes from a HUD/Fair Housing bill
board I saw at a local rather up-scale shopping center recently. It’s completely propaganda, as one would expect
from a document issued during the Obama administration, and it suggests that a
racist, homophobic attitude is typical of Americans and that our nation seeks
to block the eventual success of children of poor families and contain them in
the unpleasant surroundings of the birth, which is a complete lie.

Although it may be true that a zip code reflects the
income level and general economic means of a parent, it in no way holds that parent’s
child back from their own individual success in life if that child stays in
school, obeys the law, gets a job and works while saving and investing for the
future. The sky is the limit in America for a bright, hard-working young
person, unlike many other countries where family and class define a person’s
future. And it’s a certainty that young women living in Muslim countries have
no possibility of any success in life at all since they’re forbidden an
education and cannot work outside the home. The Obama administration forgot to
mention that unfortunate piece of information in their “fair housing” poster.
As regards the treatment of female children, America is far superior to any Muslim
nation, but leftists in America choose to ignore that fact while abusing
Americans, especially the “deplorable” Republican Americans, of racism, sexism
and homophobia.

American society is probably the most flexible,
inclusive and expansive society in the world, with no one caring what
neighborhood or zip code a person comes from. An employer, for example, only
cares how the abilities of the job seeker can benefit their business, and
beyond that a business owner has no interest in their personal lives nor their
zip code of origin. In the past, the incomes of young people typically rose
above the income level of their parents, although in the Obama years that
tradition has stalled and young people are no longer out-earning their parents.
But no one pays attention to what zip code a child was born into.

Unfortunately, under liberal rule at the federal
government level, a good education is becoming very difficult to obtain for
children attending public schools, and that will increasingly limit the
life-long advancement of children from every zip code, and especially the zip
codes that represent the poorest neighborhoods.

In fact, on the subject of zip codes, the Obama
administration is itself proposing laws that will negatively impact the future
living standards and possibly the income levels of many, and likely most, young
people. Obama is preparing to mandate that future welfare housing be built in
upper- and middle-class neighborhoods, which will assure the destruction of
real estate values and will trap people to live in neighborhoods that are
threatening and dangerous. This idiotic proposal is supposed to assure “fairness”
by making wealthier people live the less pleasant lives of the poorest people
in the nation. But all it will do is make all Americans equally miserable, and
will undermine any attempts for children of poor families to work hard and rise
above their beginnings.

It’s not individual Americans that limit or decide where
people live and how much money they earn, but it is the government that has
destroyed jobs, politicized education and generated racial divides that will
negatively impact the lives of the poorest among us for generations to come.